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Client and therapist access

Medico-legal

Expert assessment services

Medico-legal

Assessments following personal injury arising from for example, road traffic accident, accident at work, slip, trip, fall or other trauma. Structured clinical interview utilising a range of standardised psychometric measures, up to date research, literature and medical records.  Assessments following personal injury arising from for example, road traffic accident, accident at work, slip, trip,

Training

Portfolio of specialist programmes delivered by experienced professional trainers and facilitatators

Training

Advice, tailored support and bespoke training based on training needs analysis in a variety of areas including mental health, equality & diversity, CBT, cultural awareness, safeguarding vulnerable adults, child protection, professional bias, shattering stress, confidence building, unconscious bias and domestic abuse.  Advice, tailored support and bespoke training based on training

Therapy

Specialist therapeutic interventions

Therapy

Client centred treatment plan based on review of medical notes, prognosis and initial assessment utilising outcome measures to monitor recovery. Client centred treatment plan based on review of medical notes, prognosis and initial assessment utilising outcome measures to monitor recovery. Client centred treatment plan based on review of medical notes, prognosis and initial

About us

Specialist

CBT Link is a specialist exemplar provider of Cognitive Behaviour therapeutic interventions utilising a variety of modalities to encourage engagement, inclusion, access and support in therapy services and towards recovery.

Delivery

Interventions delivered by telephone, email, online resources, evidence based treatment plans and individual care packs.

Experience

Services are delivered by multi skilled qualified, experienced therapists from a range of specialisms across the mental health spectrum.

Our therapists

All Psychotherapists who work at and on behalf of CBT Services are required to be trained for the therapy they provide and be registered with one or more of the following governing bodies:

BABCP (British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies)

BPS (British Psychological Society)

BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)

UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy)

We all have mental health, just as we all have physical health. It exists on a spectrum and people can move up and down from good to poor for lots of different reasons. In any one year, one in four people will experience a mental health problem.

The most common forms of mental health problems include:

Anxiety disorders

Anxiety is a normal human feeling we all experience when faced with threatening or difficult situations. But if these feelings become too strong when there is no real threat, they can stop people from doing everyday things. Such disorders affect about 1 in 10 people at some point in their lives.

Anxiety disorders include:

  • Panic attacks – sudden, unpredictable and intense attacks of anxiety and terror of imminent disaster.
  • Phobias – fear of something that is not actually dangerous and which most people do not find troublesome.
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – stressful thoughts (obsessions), and powerful urges to perform repetitive acts, such as hand washing (compulsion).
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – can occur after a traumatic experience and involve feeling grief-stricken, depressed, anxious, guilty or angry.

Mood disorders

Also known as affective disorders or depressive disorders, people experience mood changes or disturbances, generally involving either mania (elation) or depression. Mood disorders include:

  • Depression – 1 in 5 people will become depressed at some point in their lives. Anyone can feel low but someone is said to have depression when these feelings don’t go away quickly or begin to interfere with everyday life. In its most severe form depression can make people suicidal.
  • Bipolar disorder – Once known as manic depression, it involves severe mood swings (high/manic episodes and low/depressive episodes) that are far beyond what most of us experience in every day life.

Psychotic disorders

Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Symptoms can vary from person to person and may change over time. They can include agitation, over activity, lowering of inhibitions, over familiarity, sleeplessness and irritability. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations (when you hear, smell, feel or see something that isn’t there) and delusions (false beliefs despite evidence to the contrary).

Psychotic disorders include:

  • Schizophrenia – Affects how people think, feel, behave and how they perceive their own intense thoughts, ideas and perceptions. It can develop slowly and people may become withdrawn, lose interest in things and possibly have angry outbursts. 1 in 100 people will experience schizophrenia during their lifetime and the majority will lead ordinary lives.
  • Schizoaffective disorder – Affecting women more than men, people with schizoaffective disorders have symptoms of both schizophrenia and mood disorders.

Eating problems

Characterised by unhealthy attitudes to eating, eating problems are more prevalent in women than men, though numbers continue to rise in young males.
Eating disorders are usually attributed to a set of different causes, which may be to do with someone’s personality, current events or pressures and past experiences.

  • Anorexia Nervosa – involves strictly controlling eating habits characterised by not eating and losing weight. Anorexia can affect every aspect of someone’s life and is a life threatening illness.
  • Bulimia – is more common than anorexia. It is a cycle of feeling compelled to eat large amounts of food, and then trying to undo the effects of doing so.
  • Compulsive eating – people may have come to rely on food for emotional support to mask other problems in their life.
  • Binge eating – is often triggered by some serious upset and involves eating very large quantities of (often) high-calorie food, all in one go.

Personality disorders

Personality disorders are the most often misunderstood and stigmatised diagnoses in mental health. It can mean patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving are more difficult to change and people can experience a more limited range of emotions, attitudes and behaviours with which to cope with everyday life.

Personality disorders can manifest in different ways. Psychiatrists in the UK tend to use a system which identifies different types of personality disorder, which can be grouped into three categories:

  • Suspicious: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial.
  • Emotional and impulsive: borderline, histrionic, narcissistic.
  • Anxious: avoidant, dependent, obsessive compulsive.

What is CBT?

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a short-term, problem-focused and goal directed treatment for both psychological and physical problems.
Cognitive refers to the way we think and what we think. Behavioural refers to the activities we do (or don’t do) that make us feel better/worse.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an evidence based psychotherapy that offers brief, consistent and effective ways to change.
  • In essence, CBT gives clients the knowledge and skills they need to deal with their own problems.
  • This unique approach of CBT has been proven to be effective in the treatment of a wide range of emotional and behavioural disorders.
  • CBT is a collaborative process were the therapist and client work together to identify thoughts and behaviours that can be changed to bring about emotional change.
  • The client is often taught skills and techniques that are practised (both in session and as homework) in such a way as to increase their capability in dealing with future negative events and emotions.
  • CBT uses cognitive and behavioural techniques that are genuinely flexible to a client’s needs and personal circumstances.
  • One goal of this type therapy is to teach the client to become their own therapist, by equipping them with the knowledge and skills required to achieve their goals: effectively making the therapist redundant.

What we offer

Early Intervention

At CBT link we place a high value on early intervention and an efficient service to ensure people experience a recovery of well being as soon as practicable. To help us achieve this we have a large and dedicated team of therapists across the UK to ensure individuals can be assessed and if suitable commence Therapy at the earliest opportunity.

A crucial part of any therapeutic intervention is a quality Assessment. Our therapists are trained to carryout different levels of assessments depending on the needs of the client/referrer. However, all assessments will identify the individual’s problems, goals for treatment, an appropriate treatment programme, as well as conducting clinical measures and assessing risk. This is a vital part of the process to ensure the individual receives the correct interventions and at the right time.

We work with the individuals to help them identify their problems, agree their goals and to support them to successfully achieve these goals by applying the appropriate supportive treatment, relapse prevention and rehabilitation strategies.

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